Black
Cherry($5.95) F/C(Ch)(VE) 65 days. A perfectly round cherry
tomato with classic black tomato flavor, sweet, yet rich, smoky and complex.
Fruit picks easily from the stem and is produced in abundance on vigorous,
tall plants. These cherries are irresistibly delicious: look like a
black cherry, taste like a sweet cherry-- a unique addition to the color and
flavor spectrum of cherry tomatoes for your garden, along with our other cherries, it makes a
dazzling display for any table. Just outstanding. These
guys got eaten moments after the photograph was taken. :)

Black Ethiopian’s exceptional production
and splendid flavor have made it highly prized in the tomato world. A beautiful and rare tomato
which bears all season long.

Black From Tula ($5.95) 75 days. The
largest of the irresistably luscious black tomatoes, this big old-time
Russian beauty produces a heavy crop of 4 inch,12 to 14 ounce, deep
garnet-mahogany with all the promise of the smoky rich flavor for which
the blacks are renown. Sweet and earthy, its mouth-watering flavor will
make your eyes roll back in your head. One of Laurel's all-time
favorites.

Black Krim
($5.95)75 days
(E)This much sought after
Russian variety is unique and unforgettable, originally from Krim on the
Black Sea in the former Soviet Union, Black Krim has a superb smoky
sweetness with a delicate lingering touch of tang in a 4-6" slightly
flattened, mahogany-colored fruit with lovely, deep green shoulders. Setting
fruit at higher temperatures, it is superb and very easy to grow. (It is not
the same variety as Noir de Crimeé).

Black Plum($5.95)
75 days. F/C

(E)(P-S)

This marvelous plant offers a very heavy production of rich, sweet, fruity, elongated, mahogany
plum-shaped 3" fruits that fall into your hands by the dozens as you pick
them. This one is outstanding eaten fresh, or sliced in a salad, with a rich smoky
sweetness and a delicate touch of tartness to its creamy flesh, it makes a fabulous and perfectly
balanced sauce or paste and is becoming a great favorite for canning. I
like it fresh off the vine for straight-up garden snackin'. First place winner
at the TomatoMania tasting of 2002.

Black Prince ($5.95)(E)(SM)70 days.
One of the most intensely 'tomatoey' flavored heirlooms, rich and juicy, a smaller
plant, very prolific, easy to grow, it loads up in only 70 days with clusters of
gorgeous 6-8 oz. deep, dark mahogany-red
fruits the
color of rubies at midnight.

Black Zebra ($5.95)F/C 85 days. This stunning,
perfectly round 1½" to 2" fruit with tender, deep dark red to caramel colored skin beneath vertical
dark green and mahogany streaks is the favorite tomato of Amazing Terry. Black Zebra has opulent, rich
flavor with hints of smoke and sweetness, a big favorite around here which
somehow disappear mysteriously from the plants as soon as they ripen.

NEW FOR 2015

Carbon ($5.95) This long-time
favorite of mine is a real knock-out. I've been custom growing it for
several distinguished customers and they've convinced me to add it for 2015.
It produces a heavy crop of 10 to 14 oz., beautiful purple-brown; most
fruits are darker than the one in the photograph making this among of the
darkest of the black tomatoes with delicious, rich, complex flavors that we
treasure in the black tomatoes. This high producing, richly flavored tomato
is a favorite of market gardeners and chefs.

Cherokee Purple ($5.95)(HG)(E)
75 days. A
legendary and beautiful tomato, at least 100 years old and said to be
grown by the Cherokee People. 12 oz. deep dark dusky rose-purple, deep red inside, with sweet,
rich and smoky,
luscious flavor. Cherokee Purple is a garden staple, in everyone's favorite
list for a good reason-- disease resistant, reliable and easy to grow, and great one for your heirloom or heritage garden. Seeds
were sent to Craig Lehoullier by JD Green of Tennessee who got them from a
neighbor whose family had grown them for more than 100 years. In 1990 Craig named it Cherokee Purple.

Chocolate Amazon
aka Amazon Chocolate($5.95)

80 days. This exceedingly rare, beautiful and
incredibly delicious variety is the first tomato that I can say rivals my all-time favorite,
Paul Robeson. Everyone who tastes it goes mad with tomato love and says it is
the best tasting tomato they have ever tried, bar none. The flavor of this deep
chocolate-brown tomato, as described by Lisa of Amishland Heirloom Seeds, " a
distinctive, winey, smoky, rich taste and fabulous color." Lisa was
the first to offer seeds of Chocolate Amazon which were sent to her by her
Ukrainian friend, Sergey.
Double the size of most other black tomatoes, reaching 1 lb. or more, extremely
prolific and pumping out sweet, luscious, juicy tomatoes right into the cooler
weather, Chocolate Amazon is in our top three discoveries for your 2009 garden.
Lisa's beautiful photographs are used with her kind permission.

Chocolate Stripes
($5.95) 85 days.

Among the largest of the black
tomatoes, this one was among the top 3 winners of TomatoFest 2007. Reaching
4 inches and ripening to mahogany brown with dark olive green stripes,
these fruits have enormous old-time tomato flavor and an appearance similar
to Black Zebra, but huge! A plentiful harvest, stunning beauty and
out-of-this-world taste make Chocolate Stripes a rare treat in your garden.

NEW FOR
2015

Indigo Blue Berries
($6.50) 75 days. You're going to love this tomato! along with
very high production in clusters of 6 to 8 fruits, Indigo Blue
Berries are a spectacular indigo blue,

1 to 2 ounces

with a snappy, sweet flavor and a gorgeous mahogany-red blossom end.
The fruits ripen to shiny, deep midnight-blue, almost raven-black
cherries. Quite a conversation piece. I grew it in a container out
front and passers-by, kids, grandmas and grandpas, whole families in
my neighborhood actually came to the door to ask what it was. A
really mind-blowing tomato.

Japanese
Black Trifele

AKA Japanese Black Truffle($5.95)

(SM)

80 days. Japanese
Black Trifele, which translates to truffle, is a
medium sized, juicy 3 to 4" inch long 6 -8 ounce pear-shaped, deep purple-black tomato with pretty
green shoulders. In
Russia the Trifele varieties of tomatoes--of which there are several colors--are
highly prized and command high prices. Growing on a short potato-leafed plant,
it's
the size and shape of a Bartlett pear and among the darkest hued and finest
flavored of the black
tomatoes.

The skin is smooth and crack resistant and production is huge.
Don't over-water and you will be rewarded with flavor that is deep,
chocolaty, smoky
and rich, just wonderful.Took their picture and ate 'em.

Paul Robeson ($5.95)(VE)(HG)

65-70 days. This is my all-time favorite tomato, the
best tasting tomato in the world and our top seller.

It is a gorgeous, dark and dusky-hued fruit with intensely sweet earthy
taste with a hint of tanginess,
a luscious velvety smooth texture, beautiful skin, rich with juice. You will
love it. The seed was
made available by Marina Danilenko, a Moscow seedswoman.

This
luxurious tomato is named for Paul Robeson (1898-1976), the
elegant, renowned and charismatic operatic singer, law school graduate, champion
athlete, film star, stage actor, and boundlessly brave champion of civil and
personal rights
throughout the world. This marvelous plant will give you its perfect
3"- 4" fruit in only 65 days from planting.
Incredible; a symphony. I do believe this is the finest tomato in existence.